When I add new machines built with cloned drives to the network the fact that they have the same SID doesn’t present any problems, except for WSUS, which shows only one instance of the clones, normally the last one added, rather than each instance. With newsid no longer being readily available how do others manage this? Alternatively, I’d be very grateful if someone who still has a copy of newsid can share it with me. [...]

I have a Windows XP SP2 machine with Hamachi service running. Usually I connect to it using Remote Desktop, and when I disconnect I can’t connect to it again because the Hamachi VPN is down. How to prevent the Hamachi service to stop? I am sure that Hamachi is configured as an automatic service. Asked by Jader Dias When I stopped to close the window through the X button, and started to Disconnect, then the [...]

i have a workstation in an industrial environment that reboots twice a day with no visible indication of an issue having occured. i have done analysis on the programs being used etc at the time but it is random. the event viewer shows nothing, there is no bsod or minidump either. there is no indication after reboot that your system had an issue or it recovered from a serious problem. looking for a list of [...]

First of all I’m not an expert in either Windows or Group Policy scripting but one of my tasks is to configure XP machines which are destined to be NOT network. Consequently I’ve used VBScript to change Registry settings but now I have some settings in the Group Policy which I currently configure by hand but want to script these or automate it in someway. Could anyone tell me if I can make changes to [...]

I have a Windows XP system that I cloned in June. Since then I have been using the cloned HDD (which was new). This morning I put the original drive back into the machine, and attempted to login to it. It got this message :- “Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domain controller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this [...]

What, other than magic, could cause multiple similarly configured XP Pro machines (non-domain joined, windows update disabled, no scheduled tasks) to bugcheck within 15 minutes of each other? The error message recorded in the event log is reproduced below: Error code 10000050, parameter1 bc6ffff0, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 bf84cd45, parameter4 00000000. Note: Windows update being disabled is not my choice. These are not under my control and are used in factory automation. Note: I have considered [...]

I have created some “Additional Rules”, in “Software Restriction Policies”. The rules work as expected, but I get a dialog message box every time they disallow the specified application. How can I disable this message box from being displayed? Is this possible? For specific “Additional Rules”? If not even a blanket configuration, preventing all these type of messages is acceptable. They are almost worse than the software my “Additional Rules” prevents from executing. I would [...]

I am working on a REST API which I have currently deployed on a Win XP Professional SP2 development machine running IIS 5.1. The site is currently being hosted on port 81 and being accessed via HTTP. I would now like to configure the site to stop using HTTP and use HTTPS only. I have developed a self-signed certificate using the SelfSSL.exe tool from the 6.0 Resource Kit Tools and set the Common Name to [...]

Client OS – Window XP Domain Controller:- Window server 2008 Standard R2 I had one Window XP system, i want to find out when the system has started or boot ( at what time and at which date ). I don’t know which parameter / word should i search in Event Log. For finding out shutdown time, i simply find the word “Shutdown” in Event Log. Can you guide me which word should i find [...]

I have some old workstations with WindowsXP that I can install pretty much anything on, an office with about 80 people, a wintel environment, an existing Server 2003 file/printer server, and everybody wants to be able to print PDFs, preferably in color, and preferably with the option to add password encryption to those PDFs. Oh, and license costs for Adobe’s PDF print server are prohibitive. I’d rather not have to write code, I’m more of [...]